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A Welsh valley town, seemingly an unlikely spot for a specialist care hospital, was in fact the perfect opportunity for Laing O’Rourke to enact its offsite mantra.

In December, Liverpool’s mayor quit the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, and the business case for Northern Powerhouse Rail was delayed. Lucy Alderson asks, has the ambitious project hit the buffers?

Our list of 10 projects to watch this year include football stadiums (again), large commercial schemes and two of the largest infrastructure schemes in the country – all challenging in their different ways and worth keeping a close eye on as 2019 unfolds.

Deep in the equatorial African bush, a Crawley-based infrastructure team is transforming a swampy swathe of farmland into an international airport

The Lincoln Eastern Bypass has required a staggering £10m of archaeological works as well as overcome the liquidation of its main contractor.

A huge upgrade of the port’s cargo facilities has called for hundreds of piles and masses of dredging in one of the busiest docks in the world.

Storm Desmond was Cumbria’s biggest on record and devastated huge swathes of infrastructure. Lucy Alderson finds out how work is progressing as the rebuilding programme reaches its halfway point.

In Lincolnshire, engineers are boring a tunnel beneath the River Humber to accommodate a new gas pipeline.